This season of the uneven but unique and compelling Far East crime saga starts off stronger than the series’ first season. If the once weaker characters and cast members continue to show promise, and if the main arc is supplemented with more case-of-the-week subplots like the riveting biker gang reportage, Tokyo Vice will become as well-rounded and formidable as the Japanese actors whose talent kept the last season afloat.

This remake of the 2005 hit spy film boasts blazing guns, car chases, and stars Maya Erskine and Donald Glover wielding machetes on a mission strewn with both gore and gallows humor.

The original “real housewives” are unveiled in Ryan Murphy’s FEUD: Capote vs The Swans. FEUD pivots around Capote’s self-serving and manipulative nature, which he unleashes on the sophisticated and smartly turned out “Swans” with his gossipy stories then turns his poison pen on them.

The AMC drama about 1970s Navajo tribal police officers at an isolated New Mexico reservation begins this season with stony-faced, flinty-eyed protagonist Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Bernadette Manuelito, who is as gravely serious as her boss in the midst of closing in on a formidable new suspect.

The fifth season of FX’s Fargo features some of the acclaimed series’ best performances and most thrilling action sequences. That’s an impressive feat given the heights Fargo reached in prior seasons.

The Curse’s persistence to constantly push narrative tension to the brink of chaos makes it a wildly entertaining, thematically rewarding experience from start to finish.

Justified: City Primeval has more grippingly precarious stakes than its predecessor. Whether it’s the ugliness of this new city’s underbelly, or the deeper nerves struck by more thorough character development, Timothy Olyphant succeeds at every opportunity to draw Justified viewers in.

Minx was nixed in the midst of the streaming age’s sea changes by HBO Max. Thankfully, Starz picked up the show and let the brilliantly socially conscious writers, period detail-oriented set and wardrobe designers, and this rollicking cast build on the first season’s promise.

​Carmy and Sydney are back in their crumbling kitchen in the second season of this critically and commercially acclaimed culinary-based series.